Re: Toward easier RDF: a proposal

> Javascript frameworks (lets say react) for example is technically more
> difficult than RDF, but it keeps developer attention...  I cant answer why,
> but I can point out some differences.
> 
> 1. Canonical Documentation. 
> 2. Beginner friendly tutorials.
> 3. Beginner friendly support. 

These things are important but there is a basic difference with the next one:

> 4. Building things.  When learning JS you can right from the very start see
> what it does, and build things.

Isn’t the difference here that RDF doesn’t “do” anything? It’s not a programming
language it’s a way of writing down data. Data doesn’t do things. To get
anything out of it at all you also need a programming language and some sort
of library.

Because there’s a fair amount to learn about RDF as a data language, and it’s
much less obvious than, e.g. JSON, a new developer has to learn both a
programming environment and a data environment. Maybe that’s twice as
much effort or more.

What do you think?

-w